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THEWARNING FROM RUSSIA
! T?H0M one of Its own friends has
I come a characterization of Bol
shevism In Russia.
t far i 1
ixj rcai gooa cun come to any
country without a bloody revolution,"
is the Bolshevist lJea, according to
this man, who recently spent a con-
sldtrablo'tlnic in Russia, during which
he waf In personal consultation with
L.enln und Trolzky. He Is Bertrand
. Russell, whose pacifism antagonized
the British government during the
war. Ho is un acknowledged leader
.of soclallmii and radicalism, and was
bont by the British Labor party to
maktf a report on- the situation in
Russia. Ills report of what he found
.' Is printed In the Nation, a liberal
. weekly published la London.
"In countries where' the revolution
.has not yet broken out. the sole duty!
Of . tho gommunlst Is lo hasten Its
. advfnt"Bald Mr. Russell. He adds:
Frlandg of Rugsla think sovltlsm a
new form of representative government
In which Only working- men and women
have votes. They think proletariat
means proletariat, but nt that dic
tatorship means dictatorship.
Cut dictatorship in Kuasla means ex
actly wjiat the term implies, wnHe pro
. letarlat'mens only the rommoneit rMass.
. which In RuaslA numbers only about
- 600.000 persons In the population of 120.-
000,000. J their; Jmrids e all the
power In Russia.) - .
In Russia the secret police main
. talned Ondcr the czars, the system
of espionage -and all the cruelties
practiced under' the old dynasties are
in full career for the same service to
Lenin , ami Trotaky, Elections are
t controlled, and all who vote contrary
-t to the wishes of the Bolshevist des-
. pota are marked men. The people arc
arbitrarily governed by self-perpetuating
masters, but the regime, in the
belief of Mr. Russell, is likely to en
dure because Russians are accustomed
to tyranny.
Such is the report Of a distinguished
radical who before' he saw it in ac
tion, believed in Bolshevism and de
fended it. His insistence; now is that
it is a, tyranny. It Is -undoubtedly,
an accurate reflection of Russian gov
ernment as It is and one . t 5 disillu
sion those who have regarded the
new system with favor.
't Russia, then; .has merely changed
" masters. . The soviet system is a de
' lusion , anc.' a ; snare, llule by one
- I class, whether, the class be the prole-
tariat or the nobles, is; failure. It
' , cannot bc successful; because In the
end .it .nSOst tcSnlV tor Vtytajmy over
othes grourl'Uie''tttieUs8. This
, , Is Inevitable,, because mankind la self
ish and. above all, has a mad desire
',. , tO Avicld..J?0VW,r.,.-... -Mko-,.....
t. t " Tlic only .governments then that Is
? ' safe is , one In whtcti all "groups par-
j tldlpalo. . H Is not only; the" safest gov
' ' efnment but it , Is. the best' teovcrn
mcnt, thi Tngst muring and' the only
i I oyCTnmeftVtfir9Ugfi ; whidh" . social
. , , ;antf economic Justice 'Van; b iually
' Idl8tributcda.-U. ,;
. . i ' We can 1 find, warning ;f of,; America
; front this lesson ;ot,pQl9Ticyl8t tyranny
f in Russia.' Wo-must got far (her 'and"
- . farttier, away - from , goYcmrncmV by
f. the fosses, t ila.sra'g present pitiable
-'pltgfct is the reuir of rulersnip. by
S liUiCIIUft) 'VU'J ' UUU'C B1IU
nnmhar i unti method from, the' m.-in-
; , -"t aging men who ? manipulate ; great
' ' . .legislative bodyi5. and who.r- behind
closed; doors, , after midnight, , name
candidate for president and haVe the
M j convention" ratify the sf lection next
: - Tne BuMiart.bosscs moy mirtotain
their power by military force, while
the American bosses manipulate in
secret and seek to perpetuate their
power by use of gigantlo campaign
funds. Excuse as we will, try as we
may, to think that colossal slush
funds may be safely resorted to in
American elections, the fact remains
that those who contribute those
funds must be buying something in
government for themselves that other
groups in the country are not to have,
and that-the things so bought are
worth a great deal of money to those
who make the purchase.
The safest thing for America and
the best thing for the American peo
ple, as, deduced from conditions In
Russia, is to follow the broad and
clear path of progressive government.
It Is the opposite of government by
the bosses, or reactionary govern
ment which insists that therje must
be no forward steps. Progressive
government means all groups taken
into the partnership. It means, the
farmer and the Industrial worker as
well as the big business magnate
represented. The more and more we
press forward In this thought, the
farthes and farther we will get away
from the perils of radicalism, from
the doctrine of confiscation of prop
erty, from the Inequities that impov
erish the many and enrich the few,
and the nearer and nearer we shall
approach the dawn of a new morning
of equality and justice and peace.
Wc got a glimpse of America pass
ing to her true estate when Theodore
Roosevelt and 4,000,000 Americans
broke away from what he termed
"government by .the bosses" in 1912.
On this page is an editorial from
The Journal of January 7, 1919,
which may be of interest to some in
the present discussion of campaign
issues.
FROM A CAT'S TAIL,
EARLY in July 6000 pounds of Ger
. map dyes, valued at G0 a pound,
were stolen from a warehouse near
New York. The dyes were held for
the government as part of the Ger
man war indemnity.
Government detectives were detailed
to the case. For days they worked
without success. No clue lo the
whereabouts of the dyes or the
thieves could be found.
One day an agent of the depart
ment of Justice was wandering about
aimlessly on the Hobokcn .waterfront.
He noticed a cat with an orange tail.
He callod it and it came, rubbed
against fTis trousers leg and purred.
A stripe of something orange' colored
was left by the cat's tail on his
trousers. Orange was the color of
part of the stolen dyes.
The agent followed the cat. At
length It led him to an old dwelling
on the water front. He retained some
of the colored dust from the tail of
the feline and took It to a govern
ment chemist. The chemist reported
that the tall had been colored with
German dyes.
A watch was stationed around the
house. After several days came a
truck, followed by a sedan. A search
of the truck revealed 3000 pounds of
the dyes and the arrest of three men
quickljKfollowcd. From them in
formation was obtained that resulted
In the recovery of the rerriaining dyes
in Brooklyn and the arrest of 16 other
men, declared to be conspirators in
the tlkft.
One man has already been arrested
in connection with the New York
bomb plot. Detectives there are now
examining a clock thought to have
been used in the wholesale murder.
Its mute and delicate works may lead
keen detectives to the haunts of the
conspirators.
The man with a past is never safe.
A guilty secret Is a deadly possession
as is revealed by this story of the
tail of a. cat.
Within an hour, $100,000,000 25
year 8 per cent convertible bonds of
the French republic were heavily
oversubscribed in New York city.
It is estimated that actual subscrip
tions ran between $35,000,000 and
1150,000,009. These high interest
rates are part explanation of why
Liberty bonds are low.
COINING IMAGES
AN ESSAYIST recently attempted to
-a- define the intangible wlzardy
which conjures us In many of the
supposeary inspired lines of our
poetry. Coleridge, Keats and Kipling
were among those from whom pas
sages were chosen. The essayist, to
be sure, made a sorry failure of his
task. He left wreckage where beauty
had previously held sway.
When Kipling wrote, "And the dawn
comes up like thunder out of China
cross the bay," he said nothing, If
we analyze it closely, yet at the same
time he brought to us a tremendous
meaning. We glimpse some of the
majesty of the dawn and sense some
of the terror of thunder in the words.
Two objects not at all akin have been
Drought together and made to do
ODeisance to (he poet's genius. We
cannot analyze the words beyond the
statement that they give us a perfect
.mure or sunrise at Mandalay. as it
was recalled by a lovelorn and home
sick 'soldier. Kipling has simply
coined a magnificent image as some
Wen coin words.
Y000 Coleridge wrote of "A scefte
as holy . and enchanted as e'er beneath
a ' waning-; moon was haunted, hv
woman walilhg for her demon lover,'!
ins put m our language one of the
very few, so-called pieces of verbal
magic. We vision the horror' of the
scene and are thrilled by the meaning
without comlng jn direct contact with
It - But theSvords will ' not be an
alysed. If we attempt to dissect them
we make of them a coH and deathly
ruin. We must pause at the thresh
old of the, poet's genius and let. his
intended meaning sway us as It wilL
Keats said nothing when he wrote,
"Magic casements opening on the
foam ot perilous seas in fairy Ubds
forlorn." but the verse stands as. ao
imperishable spot of beauty in our
literature. -
In more or less Intense vein this
Indefinable .appeal runs through-our
finest written thoughts. It is the one
unerring and distinct boundary which
separates the great from the ' near
great, the pat-boiler from the master.
' Diagramming and analyzaUon of
these superb passages are futile and
unremitting tasks.' We must take the
passages as they are and let them be
come part and parcel of our own com
munings. Only through the heart
and soul can we catch their meaning.
They are glorious signals from soul
to soul and are lnlerpreted only by
the finer emotions. ,
Governor Cox and Senator Hard
ing botb live In Ohio. In a straw
vote taken at the Old Soldiers' Home
In Ohio, jCox received 1765 for pres
ident against Harding's 115.
MUSIC AND MANKIND
ir HAKESPEARE tells us the man
O who is not moved by sweet
sounds is fit for treasons, stratagems
and spoils. Another philosopher had
rather write the songs of a nation
than make its laws. And we are all
familiar with the old saying that a
person who docs not love music.
flowers and little children is not to
be trusted as 'a friend.
Testimony of this kind in behalf of
the good qualities of music could be
lengthened to a point of tedium.
Music is the one universal language
of the heart. One nation's tongue
may conceive a piece of music, but
when it is put in instrumental form.
it becomes the property of the na
Hons of the world. In its general
appeal music captivates both man and
beast. It soothes man in his sorrow
and thrills him fh his joyous mo
ments. The happiest homes are those
homes where there is music or a sin
cere love of music
A city must have its music or it
will languish on the purlieus of moral
indifference. ' '
For the tenth time in its history
the Portland Symphony orchestra will
begin a local season in October.
Twelve concerts are to be given, six
symphonies and six popular. The
orchestra will be increased to 60 men.
all of whom are resident musicians.
Twenty thousand dollars is needed to
carry on the work.
Will Portland give this amount?
Portland most assuredly will respond.
Other cities have jumped into the
breach for similar enterprises. Kan
sas City has pledged tiOO.OOO annually
for three years; Philadelphia last
spring contributed f 1,000,000 to her
orchestra endowment; Los Angeles
and Chicago have each guaranteed
$125,000 a year for the work.
This particular time, when there
is a general revulsion against jaza
and vulgar dancing, seems opportune
for a move which vvliImaKe the Port
land Symphony Orchestra a lasting
and substantial feature 6f our civic
life
School concerts will be given this
year as In previous seasons, and met-
ropolitan soloists will appear on each
symphony program.
Guy W. Talbot, Charles Berg and
Edgar B. Piper are members of the
finance com'mittee and are now re
ceiving contributions. On the board
of directors are Eric V. Hauser, W.J
P. Olds.. Mrs. Henry L. Corbett and
Mrs. Robert Strong. Mrs. William D.
Wheelwright is honorary president.
Let Portland respond with glad
hand and willing purse to the appeal
"MY CUP RUNNETH OVER"
WHOEVER wrote the Twenty
third Psalm was possessed of
an overflowing personality. From
his overflow he produced and gave
to the world what many appreciative
people are pleased to call the finest
religious lyric ever written. Because
of bis song his cup is still bubbling
and flowing; and there is little reason
to fear that It will ever run dry
Whatever has made the world more
safe, sane and desirable than It was
in the days of tb cave men, comes
largely from the donations of those
people whose cup habitually runs
over people who leave more oPgood
than they consume. History is II-
luminat'. ' with this fact, particularly
the history of our own country
The United States today is looked
upon by all the world as the most
desirable part of thea earth, the La id
of Promise and of safety. The-tvorld
war has made this Idea particularly
prominent. The fact that America
north of the thirty-fourth parallel, is
a better region in which to live than
America south of It, is recognized by
us all. But not all have stopped to
consider that this is largely, is pri
marily, due 'to the fact that south of
that line America was founded in
conquest and commerce; north of
that, in religious belief and self de
nial.
The men of New England, the Pil
grim Fathers and the 30,000 English
men who Immediately followed them
who made New England what it was,
and shaped the conscience of America,
unto lhU day.: were mostly Deool!
a.-. -. .... i
I wno acniea inemselves comforts an
bodily e.asewor;Ue sake of those to
come aiier. in cm. Tneir documents.
their laws, their lives teem with this
fact. Tbey poured out their cup that
others might bo refreshed.
If one will follow the historian John
Flske through r his inspiring, little
book.-"The Beginnings of New" Eng
land." he will see how, for centuries.
th. world was leading up to this, cul
mination the founding of a neXv a fid
better land, the selection of a chosen
people, set apart for a great purpose.
And in all these world movements.
leading Howard America, he will dis
cover that then; ran this Quality of
self denial, of giving for the good of
others more than one could conven
iently give. k
This virtue of the overflowing cup
is as greatly needed In our rich land,
in this prosperous day, as ever it was.
It is a fundamental virtue In any well
ordered government. The nation's cup
that runs not over eventually runs
dry. Spain captured the greater part
of America, and looted it. Spain dried
up, root and branch. England gave
of her best to America. England and
the America she planted are still green
and flourishing.
MERELY A RESIDENT
PAUL DESCHANEL, president of
France, was found by his valet
splashing about in the park lake' at
CHateau de Rambouillet. He was not
easing his feet by bare-foot wading
nor was he yielding to a call of the
ol' swimmin' hole. These would have
been highly dignified compared with
his stupid floundering. He had fallen
In, clothes and all.
And it was not long ago that the
world rocked with laughter when M.
Deschanel, clad in pajamas, fell from
a train.
These Charlie Chaplin stunts gave
prophecy of further incongruities by
the debonair PauL
The. curtain on his last sketch was
rung down when Madame Deschanel,
heartbroken, prepared a letter tender
ing her husband's resignation as pres
ident and caused him to sign it.
What a pitiable exit from political
affairs when he should have been
In the hey dey of his popularity!
What is there in his fibre that de
stroyed a part necessary for pro
priety? Did years of flattery and
toasts and conviviality serve as an
acid? ,
A charming gentleman, silver
tongued speaker, he was lionized by
the women. Many feminine hearts
fluttered for him. In his bachelor
days France's most beautiful women
sought to ensnare him. And he had
great political prominence.
Yet he made comedy for peasants
by hoofing it along railroad ties in
night dress, and, after being fished
from a pond by a servant, this prince
among the ladies was commanded by
his wife to quit his job.
As pitiable as have been the last
days pf M. Deschanel's political
career they are, it may be said, not
more pitiable than the office of a
French president. Reft of powers
originally given him by the constitu
tion, he neither reigns nor governs.
A reverence such as have the English
for their sovereign Is not his. Ray
mond Pclncare was an exceptional
factor in his government. He was
a war president who supplied impres
sive leadership for the French in their
hour of trial. Of M. Fallieres, who
preceded him, it has been said .that
he was an amiable gentleman. ; ' Can
the French, after all, expect, much-; of
a- president whom they hold as little
more than a political butterfly?
The state of New York is, at the
cost of $1,000,000, to build a hos
pital for the treatment of demented
and tubercular veterans of the world
war.' The state wintered the build
ing -and the Institution will be op-
erated and maintained by the- fed
eral government. New York state
has 1900 ex-service men who have
become demented as a result of their
life jin the trenches. Their average
age is 23, an age at which, physi
cians say, it is easiest to cure in
sanity.
IF LINCOLN ONLY KNEW
THE danger to the Harding cam
paign is that it is a camoaign of
Insincerity. Being insincere in much
that it asserts, Its falsity is in con
stant peril of discovery. It is for
this reason that the most gigantic
Campaign fund ever assembled was
proposed by Chairman Hays.
The leaders themselves know they
are insincere in many of their claims
Thus, they know they are insincere
in claiming that the American con
stitution is imperiled by the League
of Nations. They know better, but
they rely on fooling the people. They
are willing to deliberately deceive
their own countrymen In one of the
most critical periods in the world's
history.
They know that a favorable vote
by two-thirds in both houses of con
gress or conventions for the purpose
Jn two thirds of the states is neces
sary to start a movement to change
even one word in the constitution
They know that ratification of the
proposed change by three fourths of
the states is required to put the
change into effect. So their talk
about the constitution Is humbug. It
is insincerity, and they know they
are Insincere In pressing the claim
They Insult the American people by
assuming that enough of them are
uninformed or sufficiently ignoraflt
to be bamboozled.
It Is a campaign based on inherent
and dangerous weakness. It is a cam-
'jlpa,l,trDtln which the leaders are shame
id 1 lWeaiv- riichnnfct with the masses.
They are wining to deliberately rooi
members rif their ' own party who
look to them Sot honest leadership.
It Is a fearful and terrible cam
palgn to put on as sequel to the
Christian and martyred leadership of
Abraham Lincoln.
"I WON'T LET UNCLE SAM MEDDLE WITH YOU ANY MORE"
THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
Characterization of This Remarkable
. Character. Chieffy in the Light ol
His Achievements in the Cause
$f Progressiveism.
Editorial Rrprinted Krom The Journal of
January 7. 1019.
The twenty-sixth president of the
United States is asleep with his fathers.
American politics presents no ft pure
more picturesque. No country ever af
forded a politician more daring. No
man in American public life so much
employed the unusual and. the audacious.
and none could have used thes hasard-
ous processes more successfully.
The Roosevelt action with Colombia
respecting the canal zone Is typical. He
always said of that performance that
Tasted wWle ZSZr iu ldfntl h instruction c t
was action In which the United StAtea U pfuple of Portland'. trans-Willamette
2a in . i,.f. ! bridges. Is a guest at the Hotel Port-
WIIUVUUVVA vavaaaeeTwu -
against a friendly republic. It was
audacious and eastraordinsrry. It was a
procedure that might easily have ended
disastrously for Mr. Roosevelt's admin
istration. But the whole effect was
sagaciously calculated, boldly executed,
and Mr. Roosevelt found m it. later.
many, .occasions for: congratulating him-
selt v. ' ' .' C"'-.
Mr., Roosevelt carried into hla political
life, the same spirit of adventure with
which he went as a stripling in bad
health to the Dakotas, and with whtcn
he penetrated the fastnesses of the
South African jungles and made ex
plorations along the famous "River of
Doubt" in South America. He refused
to follow beaten paths. His combative
ness 'led him to challenge many an
existing process and program.
One of his first struggles was with
Republican bosses in New York, where
he became a leading exponent of civil
service reform. Though then only in
his middle twenties, he became nation
ally known as a civil service reformer.
At 31, he was made a. member of the
federal civil service commission by
President Harrison, and so aggressive
was his work in that field that, within
six years, the number -of employes on
the civil service list was Increased to
40.000 from 14.000.
Quite as aggressive was his service
as police commissioner or New lorn
city in which the enforcement of ordi
nances and the thorough organization
of the police eastern gave added repute
to the Iiooseveltlan daring and courage.
e e i.e. . ,
No Incident In Mr. Roosevelt's career
Is more typical of his defiance of X
isUng order than his Round Robin in
the Spanish-American war. Mdst other
men would have shrunk from his act
through fear of a court-martial. Pos
sibly a less resolute and resourceful man
would have met a court-martial as a
result of It. But the very daring re
quired to sponsor it was a factor that
tempted Roosevelt to launch it.
All precedents .were brushed aside and
the great men of his party set gasping
when, aa president. Mr. Roosevelt began
bis' preachments against flie ."male
factors of great wealth" and .went on
with agitation for the regulation of
railroads and ' with denunciations of
"swollen fortunes."
A newspaper cartoon "of .the time pic
tured Mr. Bryan as a fowl with every
feather plucked out save one, and that
one was labeled free silver. The sug
gestion was that Mr. ROosevelt had ap
propriated all other of Mr. Bryan's
policies.
In this excursion Into the domain of
liberalism, Mr. Roosevelt executed one
of his most pyrotechnic performances.
It tremendously increased his popularity
with the American masses and led the
way for the huge plurality of more
than S.000.000 votes by which he de
feated Alton B. Parker in the presi
dential election of 1904.
e e e
- The boldest political act of bis life
was his leadership of the Progressive
bolt which split the Republican party
In 1912. It was a display of tha tre
mendousneas of the Iiooseveltlan power.
It was a political performance para
mount. Declaring that Mr. Taft "bit the hand
that fed him,' Mr. Roosevelt launched
Into denunciations of the Republican
party more bitter than any arraignment
that - party had ever received. -. Predict
ing that he would "beat It to a frazzle"
he placed himself at thavfaead .of hla
followers and delivered onei'-tiie moaT
terrific blows'" eter sustained byv any
party.
He more than split the party In the
middle. He tore away from It the 4.
14,959 votes registered at the poll for
hla own candidacy. He reduced Mr.
y
fMggW
"Copyright 1920, by TUe
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Miss Norma Alloway, popular TenUle
ton girl and business woman, if you get
the Idea for Miss Alloway takes a back
seat for no one as an insurance sales
man probably returned to Pendleton
this morning by automobile. At least
that was one of her plans. Miss Allo
way has lots of plans. For Instance
(pardon us for revealing it). Miss Allo
way and her best friend. Harry Ban
field, are going to celebrate at the altar
the termination of the annual Pendle
ton Round-Up. That, according to
friends at the Benson hoteI- 18 'hat
brought Miss Alloway to Portland.
e e e
John Lyle Harrington, Kansas City.
Mo., engineer and bridge builder, who
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockjey
f A btncraphical sketch of Dr. Esther Pol.
Loteioy baa been prepared br Mr. Lockljr. The
present la tha tint inatallment and deala witli
Dr. LoTejoyt ancestry, narrating particularly
certain interesting epiaodea in the Ufa of her
brave and adventurous father.
"Oo to the end of the world, and you
will find an Englishman there," said Dr.
Esther Pohi Lovejoy to me a day or so
ago as we sat across the table from
each other trying to decide whether we
would have rice pudding or blackberry
pie for dessert. "It doesn't matter
whether it is beyond the Arctic circle
or In Darkest Africa, if it is the jump
ing off place there you will find some
globe circling world wanderer from
Great ' Britain. Fifty years or so ago
Seabeck was a jumping off place, and
my father was the Englishman who was
there. Father went there In 1868. With
the exception of father's homestead, the
whole place was owned by a sawmill
company whose owners were San Fran
cisco capitalists.
"If ever there was a character who
stepped straight out of the pages of ro
mance it was my father. His name was
Edward Clayson. He was born in Kent
The call of the sea was In his blood.
At 14 he waa a cabin boy. A year or
so later he joined the British navy. At
17 he was decorated by the British gov
ernment and awarded a medal for brav
ery, which medal, by the way, I treas
ure as one of my most valued posses
sions. When he was 18 the British war
ship he was on was in South American
waters. Trouble between Chile and
Peru developed.- ChUe offered . high
wages for experienced gunners and
man-of-war's men to man their hastily
gathered naval -vessels. .Father and
some of the other lads In the British
ships, seeing a 'chance for action and
adventure, deserted from their ships and
joined the Chilean navy.
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"After months of Inaction, father be
came disgusted, so he deserted and hid
out In Valparaiso. One evening he met
another lad. of his own age who was
on his way to report aboard the Saracen,
one of the ships of the United State
navy, which was sailing for Boston-
Taft's vote to a remnant of only 2,-
388.399. against C.297.099 for Mr. Wilson.
In the electoral college, the Taft vote
was even more pitiful. Mr. Taft carried
but two small states, Utah and Vermont
with a combined strVngth of but eight
electoral votes. Roosevelt carried Cali
fornia, Washington. Minnesota, Michi
gan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota,
with a combined strength of It electoral
Votea. The rest of the states, with 43S
electoral votes, went to Mr. Wilson. The
record will foreier stand as a monu
ment to the hei( hts of personal power
ito which Theodore Roosevelt bad at
(that time reached In the political arena
of the United S'atea.
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l For many years. Mr. . Roosevelt was a
force for great good in "American life.
lie dealt -Hannaism a terrific blow at
'the moment wliefl It waa in the cenlth
of Its power .1 HI preaenment exercised
great mffueace In arousing ; tha civic
conscience ct thie . American people. In
some i-eapectsV he was a forerunner of
Wllaontarn.
As president. -tie t aided the cause of
He was tha first president to giT1
impefu and subr-tance to the great cause
of conservation of natural resources.
He "was - 4 'fwer ' In fdrrardm'g the
work of federal reclamation. ' '-
There tmtvhn lait rWrdeTrey-atrd
Presa ruhUshini Co. (The York World.)
land, where he arrived Saturday. Har
rington is here ut the request of t,lie
Multnomah county commissioners to
confer with ftiem regarding the Burn
side bridge.
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Bay Ocean, a contented little summer
resort, now largely depopulated after
a rushing season, is represented at the
Multnomah hotel by F. D. Mitchell. Bay
Ocean's tent colony was very popular
during the summer, as was its hotel, re
port nays.
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"Mrs. H. T. Chervln has resigned as
Chief clerk of the office of engineering
of the forest service to take up public
trtenographic work. She has been suc
ceeded by Ada Cunningham, who was
transferred from the waterplwer de
partment. Alfred Wright father's new found
friend, said he had enlisted that day,
but if he had it So do over he wouldn't
have signed up, as ho wanted to see
more of South America. Father, who
was anxious to get away, sized up
Alfred Wright and said, 'Your eyes are
gray ; so are mine. Your hair is brown ;
so is mine. We are the same height and
weigh about the same. We look a good
deal alike. I will become Alfred Wright
and report aboard the Saracen. You can
take my name. Edward Clayson. No
one will ever be the wiser. You can
knock around South America as long
as you like. Your shipmates aboard
don't know you, and 1 doubt if the
otflcer who examined you will ever
think of you again.' They traded names
and clothes, and father sailed away
aboard the Saracen as Alfred Wright
After serving out his enlistment he un
listed in the British navy under the
name of Alfred Wright At Portsmouth
he met Annie Qulnton and his fate at
the same time. She was young and
singularly beautiful. He won her In a
whirlwind courtship, under' the name of
Alfred Wright. When it came to get
ting married he had to produce hla birth
certificate. He was up against It and
had to make a clean breast of It. After
an uncomfortable Interview with the
commandant of his ship he was official
ly forgiven for deserting from the Brit
ish navy to Join the Chilean navy and
his name was changed back on the navy
rolls to his real name, Edward Clayson.
He was able to produce his birth certi
ficate, and was then duly married.
: "My father's people on his father's
side had lived for centuries within sight
of Canterbury cathedraL Hla father had
the blood of the Vikings who invaded
Britain and settled there. His maternal
grandmother was Irish. My mother was
of Scotch and French- ancestry.
1 "I waa born at Seabeck. There were
eight of us children, six of whom are
living. When I was 11 years old we
moved to a ranch in Clackamas county.
After four years on ' this ranch, near
Jennings Lodge, we moved to Portland
and 1 went to work as a salesgirl for
Llpman 4k Wolfe."
In his lesser roles that truthful history
will commend.
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That Mr, Roosevelt's career was cot
aliort by his strenuous Journeyings in
tropical lands Is the opinion of many
medical men. He had been a sick man
for many months. Dr. Arthur O. Jacob
son, associate editor of the Medical
Times, declares in a recent remarkable
article, that the mastoiditis for which
Mr. Roosevelt underwent an operation
some time ago waa a. sequel to the
attack of jungle fever with which Mr.
Roosevelt was stricken while In Brartl
on his trip of South American explora
tion several years ago. Tha attack of
sciatica with which the distinguished
patient was but recently confined In
Roosevelt hospital Is ascribed by Dr.
Jacobson to the same cause.
"His star has waned forever," said
Dr. Jacobson in his article, and "the
new world's flaming dawn of liberty
will blind his already dimmed vision,
and elicit nothing but tha crabbed and
peevish carplnga of age."
In Mr. Roosevelt's late utterances.
there was undoubtedly the mark of tha
ravaging disease, hurrying him on to
accelerated age, more relentless and'
mere! less foes than this dauntless polltl-ral-gladlator,
this American without a
tear, bad ever known.
The Oregon Country
N'ortbweat Hai.penli.fi n Brief Form for tha
Uuay Reader
OREGON NOTES '
Tha CI at won count v m, t,m.
convene Monday. .Nine, casee -wilr iat.
luvesugaiea.
Recent raina ..ni , .V
Ear? iT. Bro'rn-ivtiei Lumber com
pany lost a number of Iocs
wUr J,toreJ. V- G''on were robbed
Wednesday n srht. n-ii- i.w.-.J .-Tit.
considerable merchandise but Utile cash.
county Fruit ln.pector Armstrong of
Dourlas county hw iBUed to fruit '
growers dealers a warning to dis
continue the sale of diseased fruit '
An increase In asrari .... ..
the state schools for deaf Bnd t,und ,
X.lnSr,.25 Ir ce,n been ant
rtrOvd hv tha .1.1. .
' - - ' ui roniroi.
Attendance in the U runts v. m-hoola
has Increased nearly 22 per t ent over
last year. On the opening day Iwu veur
was Vi j"ment '" 98- Thl" 'ear a
On next Tuesday the Prinevtlle Mun-
f y schools will make a Joint canvass
of the city hi the Interest of tha Sun
day schools In particular and the church
in general.
According to a recent tabulation of
Assessor Foster the tax values in Crook
county have decreased the past year
a total of 53 3ar,. The 1920 roll shows
a total of f4,!37,8!0.
At a tubereulosU clinic held at the
r. M. C. A. by the Heiid chapter of
the Hed Cross 50 'per cent, of the men
and women examined were found to have
the disease, but in a malorltv of caaea
tne condition of the sufferer was im
proving on nerniint rt lhu Hm
Oregon climate.
WASHINGTON ,
Enrollment in th w.., ,i, v,-. i
schools on the opening dnv this year
was 1670. a eain of OViT 11 (Kl tit-ne leaf
year's opening figures.
The Dayton Commercial -lni, v...
taken up the housing problem, uhuh la
acute. It is proposed to list rooma ar.ri
houses to let and houttes for u
?Th rains of the' past few ditvs hRva
Supplied sufficient moisture for fail
needing and farmers in the vicinity of
K&lston are planning; to lf(tin at once.
Owing to a washout over tho .Neeby
river three loxplnpr ramps of the Simp
son Logging company, operating near
Matlock, have been forced to nuspend
work.
The State Learue of Kvlni- will
meet at Yaklni.L September -I. A fa-
ture or trra. aiHcu.ssiona wm h ih
question whether interest nitrs :iiall
be raised.
Much interest is being hluiwn in ilia
combination livestock nhow and sale
at Harrington, October 4. .'. and rt. The
sale catalogue lint 200 head of horses,
cattle, sheep and hogs.
More than 1000 cars or fruit have
been Phipped out of the Wetiatchee dle-
trlct This Is virtually the same amount
as last year, although more apples have
been shipped thla year than last.
The secretHry of the Yakima Com
mercial Clfib lias protested to ths su
perintendent of the Noithi rn 1'ncifle at
the manner in which trains are allowed
to block traffic on Yakima avenue
Had Sam. one of th brst-knaWn
bronchos of .the Northwest, broker a
leg while klcklBg at a rowhov and
had to he killeil. lie was owned by
George Drumheller of Walla Walla.
IDAHO
Twin Fulls district supnr het crop
this year will averaire 1 tons per Mere,
yielding a total of I7.00u tons from 4S00
acres in crop.
Ashton's new wulcr svstem Is nowr
nearing completion. Cntuiiderahle oVlay
has .been caused by th" non-arrival of
the pump for the new well.
Shortage of refrigerator r.-irs la ius.
ing considerable alarm among fruit
growers. The public utilltlenVa-ommlH-slon
is being appealed to from an parts
of the btate.
In a circular letter (Tie cotninlHsinner
of nubile welfare liaa asked for the'oo-
operatlon of mothers with the state arid
local officials tu combating tne sprtan
of Infectious diKenaes.
Land Commissioner- Nash will hold
land sales in the northern part r( the
state. In Latah couTity I'JOO acres will
be dispo"pd of. 2K0 nr-rea lo ft l'ercr,
360 in Lewis und 4760 In Clearwater.
According 'to Agricultural Statistician
Jat-obHon. 4G.2H4 acres of land In !rlc
county may lie watered by In isatioli
works now under construction or ciHi
pleted. For settle-incut. 7-1 I a n-u ere
now available. ,
Us 1 l.i:iiPt,f-krrs
Arthur II. Kolw.-ll In Leslies
Marshal
for renu-
Korh eannet fttM
-Cattle lii-pairli.
If Mar-tial Vnrh. t"tr " I
Tli man who ruun I I
If UK ran t find a i I -
What lm ln' I; C"i.
If Mar.li.1 K.-h l t.).y !...
To liang liia laec.l iwi
It: laridlorrte nay to HIM.
WUat chanca liai-e VS 1-
Hi in
.,,( ,r
If Maralial Fnrh lmt vdiy at) ' r"'
If after all 111-: li.l.
If ItK can't find an i.n '1
What odds alum Id W i: - ki.l'
Uncle Jeff Snow
Them Tennessee . Irgialai .ire anU-suf-frage
wops is sure some sijik . lei-sThcy
make me think of Kuddy McMplu in
VacavlUe, Texas, ho lm,d up and
waa married to Salry Jane Hot !. n
and then, right after the uedlin, met
his Old flame, .Henrietta Ioon, and went
back to 'see If lle jirearle r ei.uldn't
scratch out Salry's name on the certifi
cate and substitute Henrietta's. a!l pat
ties bcln' wlllin', although Sn "
somewhat kerflustered arl inclincl to
scratch Henrietta's eyes out. Kul It
couldn't be did. arid Hnddy and Hairy
had to make the best of It.
A Tale of I'ionc-cr l.itr in
Oregon tinder Conditions
of These L.tt' r I iys
(Continued From YeMirday)
The line which introduces this
article is symbolic 'Hie pioneers In
Oregon today are continued from
yesterday." They do not belong to
today. They have lit t In part In to
morrow. Modernity is almost un un
known to them in fact as It Is In
meaning.
Yet they are Impelled, In tveklnc
the high mountain valleys us the
place of their cabin homes, by what
Is often the urge that sent the pio
neers across the plains snd alleys
Into Oregon. They slick year after
year among their stumps -on their
tiny bottom lands, with the mountains .
rising steep all about Ihem save for
the open doors which the rler have
made in their exit toward the sea.
' Are they producing for Oregon a
mountain race such as lives In the
mountains of Tennessee. Kenlurky
and West Virginia? A red-hnried
resident of thi upper Clackamas Is
remembered. Portland is only shout
10 miles e"rom the mouth of the
Clackamas, but he had never been In
Portland. He had spent hla whole
life of three score and ten years on
the shores ef the river and in the
mountains It drains, and KM a en da
was his metropolis.
Down on the Middle Fork of the
Willamette It is said that a real
mountain clan has been established
nearly all former Tennesaeans. Kven
'more primitive and picturesque con
d It ions are. to be found in the valley
of the ( Illinois, far from railroad
transportation, in Josephine, and
Curry count lea
To Be Continued)
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